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Heather Williams: trauma, community and healing in south Bristol
Season 15 Episode 8
This week Unpacked gets into the difficult topic of trauma: what is it, who does it effect and how does it manifest?
Our guest is someone who speaks w…
8 hours ago
Edson Burton: what is culture and who does it belong to?
Season 15 Episode 7
Dr Edson Burton wears many different hats, both figuratively and literally. He’s a writer, performer, historian, poet, well-dressed man about town, a…
2 weeks ago
Joe Joyce: rugby, resilience and returning to the West Country
Season 15 Episode 6
When you’re known as the ‘King of Southmead’, how does it feel to be copping abuse on social media from the good people of Bristol?
That’s the situati…
1 month ago
Ani Townsend: art, inequality and the case for universal basic income
Season 15 Episode 5
Universal basic income means the state providing citizens with a bare-bones income that allows them to survive and keep a roof over their head.
It’s …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Clare Moody: policing, power and a political cancellation
Season 15 Episode 4
How does the Labour politician who oversees policing in Avon and Somerset feel about being cancelled by her own party after less than 18 months in of…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Bristol Temple Quarter: can regeneration be inclusive?
Season 15 Episode 3
Bristol Temple Quarter is the biggest redevelopment the city has seen in at least a generation, and will transform a vast area around Temple Meads st…
3 months ago
DIY wealth redistribution, with Bristol Redistro’s Frances Howe
Season 15 Episode 2
Taxing and redistributing wealth to reduce inequality is an idea popular on the left, and is being pushed by some politicians including Green Party l…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Unpacked – Darren Jones: from Lawrence Weston to Starmer’s right-hand man
Season 15 Episode 1
Bristol North West MP Darren Jones is a man whose political rise has been rapid.
From growing up in a Lawrence Weston council flat to representing his…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
WECA Mayor Helen Godwin - redefining regional leadership and sorting out the buses
Season 14 Episode 10
Our guest today is no stranger to the show. Back in 2020, Neil spoke with Helen Godwin when she was a Bristol City Councillor. A lot has changed sinc…
7 months ago
Lee Haskins: The world champ boxer who never left Lockleaze
Season 14 Episode 9
Neil scored a conversation with Bristol's homegrown boxing legend, Lee Haskins. You might know him as a former world champion, but today, ten years o…
7 months, 2 weeks ago